Beauty in African thought : critical perspectives on the Western idea of development / edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan.
Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction / Aderemi Oladele. The Concept of Beauty and Environmental Conservation / Diana-Abasi Ibanga -- We live in Paradise: Beautiful Nature in African Tradition / Pius Mosima and Nelson Shang -- African Ethics: Human Being is Beautiful / Stanley Uche Anozie -- African Metaphysics as a Basis of African Human and Economic Development / Wilfred Lajul -- Ubuntu Humanity and Community Building for Human Growth: Sustainable Development in Africa's Cultural Depiction / Frans Dokman -- Ubuntu Humanity and Sustainable Development Goals / Dorine E. van Norren -- Replacing Development: An Afro-Communal Approach to Distributive Justice / Thaddeus Metz -- Understanding Genuine Development: African Contexts / Luke Amadi -- A Reconsideration of African Spirituality in Agricultural Development Projects: Traditional Ecological Knowledge from Dagara Elders in Koro, Ghana / Birgit Boogaard, Bernard Yangmaadome Guri, David Ludwig, Daniel Banuoku -- Art Traders and Spirits: Negotiating Values for Self-Determination in a Frame of Global Development / Angela Roothaan -- Omolúàbí: Understanding the Yorùbá's Moral Obligations in Human Well-being and its Implications for Political Participation in Nigeria: Insights from Ikorodu / Oladosu Surajudeen Mudasiru, Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi, and Abiodun Fatai -- Spirituality, Capability, and Sustainable Development from an African Cultural Construction / Aderemi Oladele.
Summary:
"This collection contributes to the understanding of the idea of development from Africa-based perspectives. African(ist) thinkers investigate the notion of beauty as a source for alternative approaches to pressing global issues such as poverty, inequality, and climate change"-- Provided by publisher. "Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education. These thinkers have worked toward a critical self-understanding of the potentials inherent in cultural, spiritual, and political traditions since pre-colonial times. Edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, this collection explores branches of thought from wisdom or oral traditions to political thought and philosophy of culture. This book is urgent reading material for any policy maker, scholar, or student wishing to attend to the voices of African(ist) thinkers who search for alternative approaches to global questions of development in a time of climate change and increasing socio-economic inequality." -- Publisher's description
Series:
African philosophy: critical perspectives and global dialogue
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.